Who really invented Morse Code

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0><script type="text/javascript" src="http://hb.lycos.com/hb.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ratings.lycos.com/ratings/lycosRating.js.php"></script> <script type="text/javascript"><![CDATA[//><!]]></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://scripts.lycos.com/catman/init.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-start.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-middle.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/ad/code-end.js"></script> <noscript> <img src="http://members.tripod.com/adm/img/common/ot_noscript.gif?rand=243234" alt="" width="1" height="1" />  <iframe frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" width="728" height="90" src="http://ad.yieldmanager.com/st?ad_type=iframe&ad_size=728x90&section=209094"></iframe>  </noscript> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003333" TEXT="#F7F7FF" background="03fd4c00dduajq.gif"> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="95" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 46 WIDTH="91"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="46" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="91" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0cba3720.gif" border=0 width="163" height="114" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FF3300" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#003333" FACE="Arial" ><B> </b></FONT>    </div> <div> <A HREF="hisham.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Where did the name ham come from"><U>Where did the name ham come from</U></A>   |   <B>Who really invented Morse Code</b>   |   <A HREF="protools.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Solar, Geophysical, HF/VHF Progation Too"><U>Solar, Geophysical, HF/VHF Progation Tools</U></A></div> <bR> <div> Who really invented Morse Code ??</div> <div>     </div> <div>     The invention of Morse Code is generally attributed to Samuel F. B. Morse. But, could historians</div> <div> be mistaken?       </div> <bR> <div>  The following quote was taken from an article in "The Century : illustrated Monthly Magazine"</div> <div> April,1888 by Franklin Pope was a telegraph, with special references to the services of Alfred  Vail". The article is quite lengthy and is recommended reading. "The Century"</div> <bR> <div>  Before jumping in , lets see who some of the players are Franklin Pope was a telegraph inventor and writer. He may best known for his partnership with Thomas Edison in the telegraph services in early of 1870. Alfred Vail was one of Samuel Morse's partners and contributor in the development of telegraph. William Baxter was Vail's lab assistant at the Speedwell Iron Works where early developments were made.</div> <div>  The code of convential signals which had been devised by Morse, and which , in connection with his machine, he proposed to use for the transmission of intelligence, were numerical and not alphabetical. With his scheme a dictionary would have to be used because every number correspond to a word in the English language.</div> <div>  Samuel Morse in 1832 built a telegraph system and made the dictionary with the numerical codes to it but, in 1837 described inn his caveat, it has nothing in common with the code that we use today know as Morse Code.</div> <div>    But Samuel Morse's Machine had alot of flaws so wrote Alfred Vail and told him of his problems. And went to Speedwell for a few days, partly to observe the progress of the new machinery, and partly with the intention of painting the portraits of the members of the Judge Vail's household. Then he went back to New York</div> <div>   Mean while Alfred and William Baxter worked night and day to develop the new machinery. But Alfred and William didn't like Morse's construction of the machine , but they looked up to Morse and because he was a Professor too.</div> <div>   But Alfred decided to make a better machine with lever idea instead of Morse's idea  a transverse action. And after he decided to come up with a better code system than Morse's . So, Vail and Baxter got a News Paper and found the most common letters in the English language .</div> <div> And assigned the shorts symbol to the ost used letter like E dit (.), and a long character to most unused letters like dit dah dah dah J (.----) and so on.</div> <div>    But because Vail highly regarded Morse he turned his idea over to Samuel Morse so, therefore Professor Morse got the patent and got the credit for the "Morse" code used  today. If Vail turned the patent in it would be called Vail code. But will this change anything? NO but if history was more accurate we would find alot of things out  that simply isn't true or give us mistrueves.</div> <bR> <div>    </div> </td> </tr></table></body>